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Bringing Literacy into the Biology Classroom Using Story Progressions
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Designing a Science Curriculum to Enhance Students' Scientific Literacy
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Over the past two decades or so, the term scientific literacy has become prominent in discussions of the school science curriculum and proposals for improving it. If improving students' scientific literacy is to become…
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Communicating With Data Around Phenomena (Data Literacy 101)
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Helping our students make sense of data while they are working with phenomenon can be an excellent way for students to build critical 21st-century data skills in engaging and authentic ways. Here I outline an…
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Empowering Student Action Through Climate Literacy Development
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In light of the International Panel on Climate Change's findings, this article underscores the detrimental effects of climate misinformation in the U.S. and its role in impeding public understanding and action.…
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Q: How Can I Foster Scientific Literacy in My Students?
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Why Is Variability Worth the Teaching Challenge? (Data Literacy 101)
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Assessing Science Literacy Using Extended Constructed-Response Items
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The authors’ goal in this chapter is to provide teachers with information that will make them better formative and summative assessors; better judges of the quality of state, national, and international assessments that…
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Scientific Literacy: Implications of PISA Science 2006 for Teachers and Teaching
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In the first part of this chapter, the authors briefly review the notion of scientific literacy, emphasize its central focus in the PISA 2006 survey, highlight the overall test performance of countries and students, and…
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Scientific Literacy in the Post-Truth Era
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More Emphasis on Scientific Explanation: Developing Conceptual Understanding and Science Literacy
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This chapter describes a process for engaging middle school students in writing scientific explanations in the context of project-based science. In four Detroit classrooms, teachers enacted strategies for explanation…
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Novel Engineering, K–8: An Integrated Approach to Engineering and Literacy (Book Sample)
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With the Novel Engineering approach, “students become excited about what they are reading, writing, designing, and building! This excitement in turn helps them make strides in engineering and literacy, as well as in…
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Many young people learn about scientific topics online, yet middle school students have trouble identifying where scientific information comes from and what characterizes good sources of scientific information online.…
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How Can We Use and Interact With Graphs Better? (Data Literacy 101)
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